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Maryam Abolfazli was born in the US to Iranian parents. She was raised in Tennessee in a progressive family. In 2003, when she went on a trip to Iran, she got to know her conservative relatives. Now that Iran and US have agreed on a nuclear deal, she wanted to know how they feel.

When infectious disease expert Dr. Gary Slutkin returned to the US after years of working abroad on HIV, cholera and TB, he was struck by how much the spread of gun violence here reminded him of the spread of disease.

Zimo is a Syrian techno and video artist living in exile in Lebanon. His real name is Samer Saem Eldahr and he calls his music project Hello Psychaleppo. From his home in Beirut, Zimo creates music and videos that pay homage to his homeland and city of Aleppo.

This rugged little ant is small but mighty. It prefers to scavenge for food when the sun is really bearing down, with air temperatures up to 127 degrees and sand temperatures approaching 150. In fact, it's the heat that is their best ally.

The Afghan government says the leader of the Taliban is dead. One-eyed Mullah Mohammed Omar led the Taliban for more than 20 years through victory and defeat. Renowned Afghan author Qais Akbar Omar shares his reflections on Mullah Omar and life under the Taliban.

Sandra Bland's death has been ruled a suicide, but how she wound up in jail in the first place raises questions about race and law enforcement — questions that have been simmering for over a year since Ferguson and other confrontations between White police and Black Americans.

Despite the simple sweetness of a scoop of ice cream, this frozen dairy product has a complicated microstructure. And this combination of air cells, ice crystals and fat globules affects the way and rate in which different kinds of ice cream melt and collapse.

Greenland is melting fast, and that's bad news for sea level rise and other impacts of climate change. But The World's Ari Daniel, on assignment with scientists studying a rapidly melting Greenland glacier, says all that bad news doesn't make the world's biggest island any less of a wondrous place.